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Escherichia phage H8

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Group
  
Group I (dsDNA)

Family
  
Siphoviridae

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Caudovirales

Genus
  
T5likevirus

Escherichia phage H8 (or bacteriophage H8) is a bacteriophage known to infect bacterial species of the genus Escherichia and the related genus Salmonella. Its shape and genome are similar to that of Bacteriophage T5.

Genome

The phage H8 genome is 104.4 kilobases long and contains 143 predicted open reading frames.

References

Escherichia phage H8 Wikipedia